Hello
What’s happening in Canberra? Or at least in my part of Canberra (Belconnen)? There are helicopters all the time. I didn’t count but maybe ten a day? It has started one or two weeks ago. Sometimes at night too! Between my neighbour’s compulsive leaf-blowing and these helicopters, I am thinking about moving to another part of the world. Maybe a quiet place like Afghanistan. No, seriously, is there a war? Should I go back to my home country before they start dropping bombs? Do you have laws in Australia against noise? Can I just go to a police station and complain about the noise?
(I don’t know if that is the kind of things you publish on RiotACT, but that’s always where I go when I want to know things about Canberra and I am not sure who I should ask)
Thanks for your help!
ADFA used to do a lot of training over LBG around ANU.
I always assumed it was kind of on purpose, since there’s such a proud tradition of rivalry…
Are they back?
Nanouk said :
Earplugs then? I have heard them too but I don’t find them as annoying (and I haven’t spent time on a base)
Nanouk said :
Try inhaling the smoke through your nasal passages, not your ears, you fool!
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/drug-raids-three-refused-bail-20120630-21991.html
Perhaps there will be similar raids here.
gooterz said :
I suppose you think there should be trackers on patrol cars, marked cars, unmarked car, motorbikes etc that you can log into and see where they are. Can’t see who would think that would be a benefit to. I hope that while they are training the ACT Police can make full use of it
Oh dear, I am so impressed by Disinformation who trains himself to sleep in very noisy settings… I thought I was talking to people, but I was talking to robots! Excuse me, I am not used to live on a military base or I don’t know what. I am just a normal people. And I don’t care what my neighbours smoke, I see no reason for being bothered with cannabis-chasing. It makes me think of the movie Pleasantville where you shout “cat! [stuck in a tree]” to get the firefighters to move.
Anyway, good on you guys if the noise isn’t a problem for you. It is a problem for me, it damages my ears much more than cannabis does. Do you have laws in Australia against noise?
vg said :
And Fairbairn wasn’t a helicopter base ? I got there in ’83 and Hueys used to come back from night flying (in the training area) with the odd bullet hole from irate citizens.
Also worked at VIP transport and the old BAC-111s didn’t have any audible means of silencing on their Rolls Royce Spey engines… Louder than F111s I tells ya.
Postalgeek said :
Not to mention a couple of Fokkers..
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/lpg-tanker-sparks-gas-cylinder-blaze-at-majura-20120601-1zm05.html
Maybe its the police one trying to put out a whopping great fire.
peterh said :
Case in point – see what happens with broken sleep.
Jim Jones said :
Probably shares bedside hanger space with an old Dominator and a couple of Lancers
vg said :
I’ll see your A6 Intruders and raise you Mirages.
Mind you, I also had no problems sleeping on an operational base at night.
I even fell asleep during the day, while on fire watch with a P3-C Orion doing engine runs twenty feet away. Not one of my proudest moments.
People who train themselves to sleep only in quiet settings deserve all the waking up they get.
MissChief said :
as has already been mentioned, this is the AFP, not ACT Policing. The ACT Police Chief has little or no say in what the AFP do in Canberra Airspace.
vg said :
Is that some sort of sex toy?
Dear ACT Police Chief,
Can you please stop running training exercises at unreasonable hours. We need our sleep so we can work to pay our taxes to pay your wages.
Thank you.
Concerned Citizen
I’ve noticed an increase in helicopters over our place as well, particularly at night. We’re right under the flight path for South Care though so I just figured that South Care is busier than usual at the moment.
The AFP have finished their flights for now. Any helicopter now are someone else.
Seriously? Is it that loud?
Can you not put up with a little noise to get rid of a few more grow houses?
Sorry but I cannot hear any choppers over all the whinging!
Good luck in your new country.
LSWCHP said :
LOL, +1.
But i have it on good authority (twitter) that the crims get dropped not in the brindies, but over the border into Queanbeyan. Without an ACTION bus to get them out again, or cars to steal (the locals being to tough-looking to dare steal from), they get stuck there and over time inflate Queanbeyan’s crime stats, while reducing Canberra’s.
It’s quite a clever plan. Or a ‘strategic crime reduction capability building exercise’, as the more articulate top brass like to call it